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War August Poems

These War August poems are examples of August poems about War. These are the best examples of August War poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Looking back
Being stuck in the past
Life passes so fast
Days go by
Seems to fly
Sometimes I wonder where the days all went
Was it time well spent
When I am...

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Categories: allusion, august,



Premium Member Blood Moon
In the cooling from a burning August day,
I was hushed in the darkness,
before I ventured to fancy-
above my screen window was her-
a looming blood moon.
Of...

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Categories: august, 6th grade, 7th grade,

Time Machine
Time Machine

I sometimes wonder about migration, is there a moment when doors are closed and the bus leaves the station
Sorry folks, the country is full.
One...

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Categories: august, creation, england, flying,

Premium Member August Events
The 6th and 9th have come and gone though none have taken note
that faraway, on those two days, an instant blazing blast
had vaporized morality. A...

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Categories: august, war,

Premium Member We Shan'T Forget You - Battle of Britain's Longest Day August 15
They were young starry-eyed, yet too soon so many had to die.
Brave to a fault with wanderlust of youth, no challenge spurned however seemingly uncouth.
In...

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Categories: august, conflict, courage, death of



Hiroshima Seventy Seven Years Since August 6th 1945
Hiroshima – seventy seven years since August 6th, 1945

Given the nuclear weaponry arsenal today
August 6th, 2022, our collective ability
to lay waste major metropolitan areas
would make...

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Categories: angst, anniversary, anxiety, august,

Wherefore
Wherefore 
  
 there is a question, philosophers and goat herders
 have in common with the rest of us a modest multitude
 the query...

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Categories: age, august, books,

It Hasn'T Rained In Two Weeks
the raindrops  commit suicide  on the window
as if they wanted to wash the goodbye signs
with the blood of the water,
- the rain today...

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Categories: august, 2nd grade, allah, angst,

August Promise
August Promise

Every year I say, come August and I will go to Norway
but every you’re the flight ticket goes up, when mulling this over
it is...

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Categories: august, absence, birthday, color,

Premium Member Cold War Clientele - Benguet Province, August, 1978
My thumbs pressed on the trigger.
The M-2 bucked its load.
I squinted down the barrel
And watched his head explode.
An early morning ambush,
A steaming Luzon hell,
For Ferdi...

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Categories: august, dark, war,

Somewhere In Time This Philosopher Stonily Ponders
Somewhere in time this Philosopher stonily ponders...

A poet (quite familiar with yours truly)
sat at his computer
trying his darnedest to craft a rhyme
imagining when both parents
of...

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Categories: appreciation, august, conflict, environment,

Umpteenth Heat Wave Since Onset of Summer
Umpteenth heat wave since onset of summer...
sizzles Delaware Valley today August 25th, 2021

Said geographical area composed of counties
located in Southeastern Pennsylvania,
South Jersey, Delaware, and
Eastern Shore...

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Categories: america, august, confusion, death,

Premium Member Liberation of Paris, August 26, 1944
Liberation of Paris (August 26, 1944)

Who would have thought
To see American soldiers
Under the Arc de Triomphe
Marching along Champs Élysées,
In the Liberation of Paris;
When a short...

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Categories: august, memorial, paris, tribute, world

Hiroshima Seventy Six Years Since August 6th 1945
Hiroshima – seventy six years since August 6th, 1945

Once again, I take momentary pause
to contemplate horrific event
regarding unleashing atomic warfare
activating nuclear brinkmanship,
hence time to trot...

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Categories: abuse, anniversary, august, conflict,

Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday during month of May
can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans
festivals held
to honor mother goddesses Rhea and...

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Categories: america, appreciation, august, blessing,


Book: Shattered Sighs